Modeling and understanding smectic-phase formation in binary mixtures of rodlike polysilanes: Comparison of onsager theory and experiment

Macromolecules

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3956-3963

  Varga, Szabolcs ^a,b   Velasco, Enrique ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTO NICOLÁS CABRERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; POLYSILANES; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ONSAGER THEORY; POSITIONAL DISTRIBUTION; SECOND-VIRIAL THEORY; SMECTIC A PHASE; SMECTIC ORDER; SMECTIC PHASE; SMECTIC PHASIS; SMECTIC STRUCTURES;

BINARY MIXTURES;

EID: 77951157725     PISSN: 00249297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ma902576q     Document Type: Article

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